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FHAKKLXK (50U!3ftPi, OHIO JMES PRESOMN POINDEXOER, ELDER STAOESMM Of
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Richard Clyde Minor
Reprinted from The Ohio State Archaeological anfl Historical Quarterly, July 1947»
JAMES PRESTON POINDEXTER, ELDER STATESMAN OE COLUMBUS
by Richard CLijiE M]N(or Professor of Socioloify, Lincoln Unk-vrsify, Jefferson City, Missouri
The story of James Preston I\)inclexter, though it can never be told in its completeness, still reveals enough to show that he was a remarkable man. CJf mixed Negro, Caucasian, and Indian blood, the force of circumstances made him a Negro; the force of his personality made him a man respected among men.
There are many still living who knew him. Never once has the writer heard him spoken of in other than the highest forms of praise. Those still living who remember him, of necessity knew him as an older man who had already reached the zenith of his career and bad perha])s mellow^ed in tbe process. Btit much earlier in bis life be exbilnted the cjualities which brought him to prominence in later years.
Strict honesty in every sense of tbe word more than any other trait explains why he was elected and appointed to offices of honor and trust in the State. At the time of his death in bis eighty-eighth year he was the holder of an office to which he had been appointed by a governor of the State and had just relin¬ quished an office which be held for eighteen years^ the three six- year terms being given bim by three different governors.
Poindexter was born in Richmond, Virginia, September 25. 1819, the son of Evelina Atkinson (one source gives the surname of Evans), a woman of Negro and Cherokee Indian blood, and Joseph Poindexter, a journalist in tbe emjiloy of tbe Richmond Enquirer. George B. Poindexter, a brother of Joseph, migrated to Mississippi and became one of the early governors of that state and is said to have been a very able administrator.
The mother of Poindexter died when he was but four years of age. Very early in his life, at ten years, he was put to work as an apprentice barber, his trade for many years. Poindexter married

FHAKKLXK (50U!3ftPi, OHIO JMES PRESOMN POINDEXOER, ELDER STAOESMM Of
GULUMHJS
Richard Clyde Minor
Reprinted from The Ohio State Archaeological anfl Historical Quarterly, July 1947»
JAMES PRESTON POINDEXTER, ELDER STATESMAN OE COLUMBUS
by Richard CLijiE M]N(or Professor of Socioloify, Lincoln Unk-vrsify, Jefferson City, Missouri
The story of James Preston I\)inclexter, though it can never be told in its completeness, still reveals enough to show that he was a remarkable man. CJf mixed Negro, Caucasian, and Indian blood, the force of circumstances made him a Negro; the force of his personality made him a man respected among men.
There are many still living who knew him. Never once has the writer heard him spoken of in other than the highest forms of praise. Those still living who remember him, of necessity knew him as an older man who had already reached the zenith of his career and bad perha])s mellow^ed in tbe process. Btit much earlier in bis life be exbilnted the cjualities which brought him to prominence in later years.
Strict honesty in every sense of tbe word more than any other trait explains why he was elected and appointed to offices of honor and trust in the State. At the time of his death in bis eighty-eighth year he was the holder of an office to which he had been appointed by a governor of the State and had just relin¬ quished an office which be held for eighteen years^ the three six- year terms being given bim by three different governors.
Poindexter was born in Richmond, Virginia, September 25. 1819, the son of Evelina Atkinson (one source gives the surname of Evans), a woman of Negro and Cherokee Indian blood, and Joseph Poindexter, a journalist in tbe emjiloy of tbe Richmond Enquirer. George B. Poindexter, a brother of Joseph, migrated to Mississippi and became one of the early governors of that state and is said to have been a very able administrator.
The mother of Poindexter died when he was but four years of age. Very early in his life, at ten years, he was put to work as an apprentice barber, his trade for many years. Poindexter married